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Monthly Archives: April 2021
End of an Affair / So endete eine Liebe (1934) Karl Hartl, Paula Wessely, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens

The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I Read More »
Eleven Samurai / Jûichinin no samurai (1967) Eiichi Kudô, Isao Natsuyagi, Kôtarô Satomi, Kôji Nanbara

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu Read More »
80 Hussars / 80 huszár (1978) Sándor Sára, László Dózsa, György Cserhalmi, Jácint Juhász

The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. Read More »
Samurai Wolf / Kiba Ôkaminosuke (1966) Hideo Gosha, Isao Natsuyagi, Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyazono

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba Read More »
Clean, Shaven (1993) Lodge Kerrigan, Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. Read More »
The Luzhin Defence (2000) Marleen Gorris, John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James

Set in the late 1920s, The Luzhin Defence tells the story of a shambling, unworldly chess Grand Master Read More »
Club Paradise (1986) Harold Ramis, Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis

Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires Read More »
It Had to Be You (1947) Don Hartman, Rudolph Maté, Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde, Percy Waram

A woman is noted for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar until a dashing fireman walks into her life. Read More »
Men and War / Senso to nigen (1970) Satsuo Yamamoto, Kei Yamamoto, Hideki Takahashi, Mizuho Suzuki

The first part follows the rise of the Godai clan rise from war-profiteers to their becoming Read More »